Will “Triage Licensed Practical Nurse (TRIAGE LPN)” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔

5.8% Chance of Automation

“Triage Licensed Practical Nurse (TRIAGE LPN)” will not be replaced by robots.

This job is ranked #144 out of #702. A higher ranking (i.e., a lower number) means the job is less likely to be replaced.

Care to share? Click for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or XING. 👍

Job Description

Care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2061.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 44,840.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 21.00
Currently, there are 702,400 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses”.

Also Known As…

Tasks for “Triage Licensed Practical Nurse (TRIAGE LPN)”

Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
Clean rooms and make beds.

Related Technology & Tools

Ultrasonic cardiac output monitors
Ostomy equipment
Non-vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
Hollow needles
Vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
Electrocardiography EKG units
Oxygen tubing
Ultrasonic nebulizers
Gastric suction equipment
Traction weights
Continuous passive motion CPM equipment
Patient lifters
Traction equipment
Crutches
Personal computers
Bucks extensions
Syringes
Infusion sets
Air fluidized beds
Knee braces
Pneumatic boots
Rotating bed
Electronic stethoscopes
Tuberculin TB skin test equipment
Dialysis machines
Through-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
Personal digital assistants PDA
Intradermal needles
Wheelchair belts
Apnea monitors
Gait belts
Capillary tubes
Lap belts
Mechanical stethoscopes
Hemoglobinometer machines
Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
Heart monitors
Halo traction equipment
Handheld spirometers
Bag infusion systems
Fabric body holders
Mercury blood pressure measuring equipment
Walkers
Transfer boards
Urinary catheters
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
Pulse oximeters
Ankle restraints
Frames
Intravenous IV needles
Wheelchairs
Portable nebulizers
Oxygen cylinders
Evacuated blood collection tubes
Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
Closed infusion systems
Hemovac drains
Safety vests
Non-invasive cardio respiratory monitors
Intermittent infusion sets
Enema equipment
Needleless intraveneous IV sets
Butterfly needles
Desktop computers
Walking braces
Filtered intravenous IV catheter tubing
Safety needles
Jackson-Pratt drains
Oxygen masks
Automated external defibrillators AED
Pocket spirometers
Tracheotomy tubes
Blood glucometers
Safety jackets
Electronic compressor nebulizers
Wrist restraints
Compressor tabletop nebulizers
Lancets
Glucometers
Blood transfusion drip regulators
Neck braces
Respiration monitors
Posey vests
Flexible nasogastric tubes
Crutchfield tongs
Open infusion systems
Suture removal kits
Limb restraints
Intubation suctioning kits
Non-invasive cardiac output monitors
Intramuscular needles
Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
Safety belts
Ultrasonic Doppler equipment
Canes
Infusion pumps
Over-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
Notebook computers
Personal computer PC-based spirometers
Safety infusion systems
Balkan frames
Needleless intravenous IV withdrawal equipment
Tourniquets
Oxygen supplies
Needleless glucometers
Clinical trapezes
Nebulizers
Abdominal binders
Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB apparatus
Automated spirometers
Circo-electric beds
Restraints
Hyper/hypothermia blankets
Pediatric nebulizers
Telemetry units
Tablet computers
Infusion controllers
Digital spirometers
Electronic blood pressure units
Heparin locks

Telephone triage software
MEDITECH software
Electronic medical record EMR software
Infusion management software
Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Spreadsheet software
MedicWare EMR
Medical condition coding software
Scheduling software
Diagnostic and procedural coding software
Word processing software
Medical procedure coding software